problem with disk test display

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:50:54PM -0400, user-7a6c75d6cc10@xymon.invalid wrote:

Henrik, it appears that having partitions removed from a Linux/Unix
system messes up the disk drive display. The disk test continues to
display the removed partitions (at least in the legend), but at the
expense of not displaying all of the current partitions. In order to
display all of the current partitions you have to manually remove
the .rrd files that correspond to the removed partitions.

Ah yes - this is probably the same bug that Pat Vaughan reported
earlier today.

I would be wary about calling this a bug.  You should not be dropping file systems without a good reason.
If you do drop a file system, you expect to do extra work.  ie. locate rrd file and delete it (or run a command that does it for you).

I would be concerned if a tool automatically removed a disk parition graph if it was not mounted at the time it was last checked.

Maybe this should be made as a note in the documentation somewhere.


Craig Cook
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